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I am mapping house circuits and have run across some NM cable whose markings have faded into nonexistence or were never present (might be 1980s cable, and I am ignorant of 1980s cable manufacture practices). Some text was embossed into the cable sheathing during manufacture, but the visible run is short and I cannot read the desired information off the cable.
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'Enough Said' review: Macabre twist to romance
Enough Said
Romantic comedy/drama. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini and Catherine Keener. Directed by Nicole Holofcener. (PG-13. 93 minutes.)
With most posthumous movies, it's easy to forget the person is gone and just savor their presence, but that's not quite possible with the late James Gandolfini in "Enough Said." In fact, the particular nature of the movie makes for constant reminders of the actor's death, which, needless to say, intrudes on the experience.
"Enough Said," the latest from writer-director Nicole Holofcener ("Lovely and Amazing"), is a romantic comedy about two 50ish people who meet, hit it off and step gently into a relationship. Gandolfini is the male lead, which means we see him kissing the female lead, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and lying in bed with her. But Gandolfini looks unwell. He also looks enormous - especially enormous next to the tiny Louis-Dreyfus - so to see him in these physical acts is discomfiting.
Moreover, the character's obesity is a topic of ongoing discussion throughout. At first, the woman thinks he's too heavy to go out with. Later, she doesn't mind. The movie favorably contrasts his new love, who more or less accepts his weight, with his ex-wife (Catherine Keener), who constantly berated him over it. But even without knowing Gandolfini's fate, we would know we are looking at something more than just middle-age spread, that this is a serious health risk. Thus, we find ourselves unwillingly agreeing with the wrong character.
This is awkward and macabre and not at all enjoyable, especially for those of us who miss this actor and are not quite reconciled to the loss. Yet the negative responses are balanced by the pleasure of seeing Gandolfini bring his abilities to bear on a different kind of role. The man had beautiful eyes. They said everything, and they tell the character's story here - his shyness, his growing affection, his sense of injury, his innate dignity.
Like most of Holofcener's films, "Enough Said" has a big cast, but the actual comic conceit, in this case, is very simple. Eva (Louis-Dreyfus), a masseuse, starts a relationship with Albert (Gandolfini), right around the time she takes on a new client. Very soon, Eva realizes that the ex-husband that her client keeps referring to - the annoying slob, the pathetic loser - is, in fact, Albert.
Holofcener is a buoyant and engaging writer, and as a filmmaker, she creates worlds that are easy for audiences to slip into and enjoy. "Enough Said" is populated by intelligent, well-mannered people who are financially comfortable and spend their lives worrying over whether to fire the maid. They also spend their time getting into needless predicaments. Thus, for reasons that make sense only in Movieland, and then only barely, Eva continues to see the ex-wife and never lets on.
Louis-Dreyfus, who doesn't make enough movies, is warm, appealing and comically adept, a good person to have at the center of the story. But something in the combination of Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini doesn't seem right, or perhaps it just doesn't look right. I found myself unable to believe that Eva would fall in love with this man, which is either the fault of Louis-Dreyfus, or of Gandolfini, or of one critic's misperception. In any case if, as a viewer, you can't relax into the relationship onscreen, about half the pleasure of a romantic comedy will be lost.
Neither does it help that, despite the wit and literacy of "Enough Sad," its form is straight out of a teen romance: A cool kid starts dating someone less cool, and then engages in some elaborate deception that, if found out, will threaten the progress of young love. The funny thing is, if "Enough Said" were converted wholesale into a high school romance, the characters' behavior might ring more true.
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Total TimePrep/Total Time: 20 min.
Makes5 servings
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
- 1-1/2 cups milk
- 10 slices day-old bread, halved
- 3 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup water
- 3 tablespoons molasses
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon maple flavoring
- In a shallow bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Combine eggs and milk; add to dry ingredients and mix well. Dip bread into batter, coating both sides; cook on a greased hot griddle until golden brown on both sides and cooked through.
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Our family has used this receipt for years! Wonderful, especially with Texas Toast & butter Crisco.
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This recipe is not good fluffy french toast. Whoever rated 5 stars in the reviews must have been family or friends of the creator of the recipe. I made it and it is pancake bread! Just look at the ingredients. If I wanted pancakes then I would make them but I prefer french toast so I was upset with the results. When I looked up how to make fluffy french toast I wanted something like Denny's french toast because there big and fluffy. Not pancake bread! It's either pancakes, or french toast and this recipe is a failure so don't waste your time making it if your expecting french toast.
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My falimy and I enjoyed this recipe. It's like french toast and pancakes in one. I used regular sandwich bread (all I had in the pantry) and I did add cinnamon and vanilla to the recipe. It's just what I always do when making french toast. Will make again. :-)


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Recently, I took a Greyhound bus ride where the company put me and other passengers at serious risk for hypothermia and frostbite by leaving us outside a closed station in the middle of the night in subzero temperatures. I started this petition to ask Greyhound to always keep stations open when customers have a layover, so no Greyhound rider has to risk their health ever again.
On Friday, February 1, I was returning home to Bloomington-Normal, IL from Minneapolis, MN by taking a Greyhound bus. The bus left at 12:01 a.m on Friday from Minneapolis and was scheduled to arrive at Des Moines, Iowa at 4 a.m where I would wait at the station for my five hour layover until my bus to Bloomington-Normal arrived at 8:55.
When I boarded the bus, the driver told me that the Des Moines bus station would not be open until 5 a.m and that me and the other people with layovers would have to wait outside for an hour. In January. In Iowa. Greyhound knowingly abandoned us outside a closed bus station in negative 17 degree weather.
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Found another outtake from the Ethan Russell photo session in 1969, hope more of these keep showing up.
Archive for January, 2006
August 1969:Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Beep Beep:Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Poll winners 1966Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Inaugeration 1977:Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Melbourne 1964:Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Fender Jazz:Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Willow:Friday, January 20th, 2006
'THE' George photo:Friday, January 20th, 2006
Nurse!Friday, January 20th, 2006
Hamilton Island:Thursday, January 19th, 2006
This photo of George and Kerrie Anne Kennerly was taken in March 1982 during Georges first visit back to Aussie since 1964, Kerrie Anne snagged an exclusive interview with George on the island and it's one of the best interviews George ever gave, Hari later brough property on the island and it's still owned by the family.
Dakota:Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Newmans ownTuesday, January 17th, 2006
Standing stonerTuesday, January 17th, 2006
I dream of RingoTuesday, January 17th, 2006
Andy updateTuesday, January 17th, 2006
PopcornTuesday, January 17th, 2006
F.A.B.S F.R.O.M U.N.C.L.ETuesday, January 17th, 2006
Andy in the gardenTuesday, January 17th, 2006
As collectors i'm sure we've all had those moments where you cant find a piece of your collection that you KNOW you have, this has happend to me several times, and the worst time involved a photo i couldnt find. Years ago i saw a photo of The Beatles at a press confrence and Andy Warhol was standing on the stage near them, being a big admirer of Andy i thought this was so cool to find a pic of the Fabs and Andy together, i wrote on a little slip of paper and stuck it in the magazine so i could remember where it was if i ever wanted to print it in our fanzine, or use it for an article.
About six months later i went to find the photo and could not for the life of me remember where i had see the photo, i remembered putting in a piece of paper on the page, but alas i couldnt find it .. this was seven years ago, many searches and hunts have ensued but i never turned it up, finally i gave up and conceded that it was lost or the only way i would find it would be to stumble across it.
Fast forward to last week when i was searching my archives for ANOTHER lost photo (found that one, whew!) imagine my glee when at the bottom of a pile of papers and magazines i saw a tiny piece of paper that i instantly recognised as the one i'd used to mark the Andy photo, sure enough when i pulled it out there it was .. Andy and The Beatles in all it's black and white glory.
I've always been facinated with the Beatles relationship with Andy Warhol, John seems to have been the closest to him, but at a recent Warhol exhibition i found some correspondence from Paul in Andys personal papers.
Below is the photo of Andy at the press confrence with the Beatles, anyone have a clue where and when?, is there film of this floating around?
Below that pic is one of John and Andy at a private party in 1978, this is also a pretty rare time frame for a photo of John to emerge from.
BlurterTuesday, January 17th, 2006
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 9TH 1980 IN AUSTRALIA:Monday, January 16th, 2006
In December last year shortly after my visit to New York, it was the 25th aniversary of the murder of John Lennon, a death i'm still processing and coming to terms with. My diary from many years ago has a space where i wanted to put down my memories of that horrible day, but could never bring myself to write them down, that is until my return from New York and visiting the Dakota.
During that visit John became very much a real person to me, just a singer, just a husband, just a father and a man, and that was a heartbreaking realisation.
Today, in Australia December the 9th 2005 at 2.50pm marks the twenty fifth anniversary of John Lennon being taken from us. So far most of what I have read has been from fans in the U.S and the U.K, but with the time differences it was 2.50pm on the afternoon of December 9 that the horror unfolded down here in Australia.
We had a different perspective here than many others around the world, as we didn't wake to the news, we watched it unfold before our eyes, and our ears.
Today has really stopped me in my tracks, 25 years have passed, I was only fifteen, I didn't know death, I didn't know shock, I was still pretty much innocent, but in the blink of an eye all that was to change.
By August of 1980 I had been a Beatle fan for five years, in 1975 I was fan-ish enough to beg my brother to take me to see Wings in concert, he didn't and I sobbed like a .. well, ten year old. During the years 1975 through to mid 1980 John had pretty much retired, I didn't `know' him whilst he was active and recording, I remember seeing the photo of Yoko and he in our local paper that was taken in February 1980 in Palm beach, wow John! .. then a few weeks later Rolling Stone ran another photo of John in Florida, this time he was standing alone on the boardwalk.
By this stage I was collecting and clipping everything about the Beatles. In August came the news that John was recording again, I was SO excited!, I had a new Beatle to follow! our Sunday paper in Sydney ran a photo of John and Yoko arriving at the studio, it was real, it was true, it was happening! John really was going to be recording again, and by fifteen I was old enough to appreciate this.
I started collecting every bit of news that filtered down to us, mainly from our Aussie music magazine `Juke' which I purchased each week without fail.
Another magazine which I cant recall the name of also had regular updates on John's return, I do remember Gil Tucker from `Cop Shop' was on the cover of this newspaper like magazine.
Tv Week magazine in Australia ran a one page story on November 8th titled 'The Lennon genius is reborn'.
One night in November I was lying on my bed listening to my prized National radio cassette player when the anouncer said "Coming up next we premiere John Lennon's new single `Starting Over' gulp!! The excitement!, my first time ever hearing a new John Lennon song on the radio, he played the song and don't remember what I thought of it on first listen, but I remember singing it over and over all night trying to remember it, of course after a few run throughs it turned into a completely different song.
A week or so later I got Double Fantasy on cassette, I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty certain i purchased it from the `Rock pit' in Corrimal court, this was our local record shop.
The record store always put my name on Beatle posters when they were advertising a new album, needless to say my name went on the giant Double Fantasy poster that the store had.
I remember holding the cassette in my hands as I sat in the back seat of my parents purple Escort car while dad filled up with petrol on the way back from the shop, I couldn't wait to get home to play it.
By the second week of December the school year was winding down, in February I would be turning sixteen, I felt so old and mature. At school we were in the second week of `End of year activities' this was a cool thing where for the last two weeks of school you got to pick fun subjects and activities, like skating and photography.
On December the 9th the world was good, the weather was warm, and for once school was enjoyable. I spent the day with my friend Jeff in the darkroom developing a heap of photo's we had taken during our photography course. We had such a fun, we had gone on an excursion into town to David Jones to take some photos the previous day.
During lunch on the 9th as we walked north past the industrial arts building, I vividly recall Jeff asking me what I was doing later that day, I told him excitedly that I was going to dinner at my brothers place, and his girlfriend Sue was making apricot chicken.
When I got home from school at about 3.10pm, my sister Rhonda was visiting mum, they were talking in the kitchen, dad had just left for afternoon shift, and I went to my room and picked up my National radio cassette player.
I walked up to dads `shed' (garage), this is where my guitar and drums were kept, every afternoon I would grab my cassette player, and head
strait for the shed.
I would put on a tape, or the radio, and I would play along with whatever was on and practice the drums, this afternoon was no different, I settled in, turned on the radio, and started playing. I flicked around the dial to find another song .. wow, cool! A Beatle song `Love me do', so I played along to that.
Sweeping across the dial I found , ANOTHER
Beatle song `Strawberry fields forever' was playing.
When the song ended so did my childhood, so did my innocence.
`In case you haven't heard already, former Beatle John Lennon was shot, and killed just a short time ago in New York city'. The words of the DJ on Sydney's 2SM.
What happened next I can't explain, I guess it was shock. Everything seemed to be in slow motion, I picked up the radio, and walked down to the house, but I don't remember walking, during the short time it took to get to the house I felt disconnected from my body.
I walked into the kitchen where my sister and mum were talking, I didn't say anything, they saw something was terribly wrong, my sister kept saying over and over `What is it!?', all I could say was `Just listen', I couldn't repeat the words I'd just heard on the radio.
I put the radio on the kitchen bench, and soon enough at the end of another Beatle song, the announcer came back and repeated the words I had heard only minutes before `John Lennon has been shot and killed in New York' my sister and mum both gasped, then my sister said `I feel like a part of me has died'. In those few short minutes my childhood, innocence, sense of safety, security and hope was snatched away from me. I sunk down into a kitchen chair, the airwaves were flooded with news and John songs.
I gathered myself up and went into my room and found some cassettes, I started doing what many others were doing around the world simultaneous to me, I started taping the radio. I went and lay down on the lounge room floor, listening, trying to take this in, the phone rang and it was my other sister Dianne, she asked me if I had heard the news about John, in the background I could hear my niece Kylie crying, who I knew was crying more for me, than for John.
Soon enough we had to go to my brothers for dinner, I didn't feel like seeing anyone, let alone eating, I remember arriving and still being in shock, my brother and his girlfriend Sue were really understanding, Sue in particular I could sense felt horrible for me, I didn't eat that night, and I don't know that I ever ate apricot chicken again.
I went and lay down on Glenn and Sue's bed, and listened to my radio, the same one that brought me my first hearing of `Starting Over' only a few weeks previous. I wouldn't let go of the radio, I clung to it, even when I went to the bathroom, I sat on the toilet just to get away from everyone, and it was in there that I heard `Working class hero' for the first time.
Outside in the lounge, I overheard my brother say to our sister `This will be one of the biggest stories ever'. When we got home I was watching Roger Climpson read the late news on channel 7, at the end they played the video of John singing `Imagine', at that moment dad walked in from afternoon shift, and said to me `I see your mate died', `My mate' oh how I wish.
John was a person who sang and wrote songs, songs that reach deep into my very soul, I `feel' his music, not everyone can, but I'm one of the lucky ones who experiences this phenomenon with music by certain artists. Every one of his songs sound as fresh to me today as the first time I heard them, I don't know too many other artist who's music you can say that about, The Beatles, solo McCartney and Brian Wilson.
One of my main joys in life is collecting everything connected with John in 1980, the `Double Fantasy' period, I love when I find a new photo from this time, the reason being is the last six months of 1980 was the only time I `had' John, he wasn't working as an artist when I first became a fan. I cling to 1980, the few memories I have of him whilst he was still alive, because I miss him, I miss his music, I miss his words, I miss the world I had when John was still here, along with my innocence and sense of safety.
I miss the `man', this is something that has only very recently been made real to me, a few weeks ago I got to visit New York for the first time, within a day I understood why John fought for years to be allowed to live there, it's a great, eclectic, and welcoming city.
Soon after arriving I took a deep breath, and got on the subway, and headed uptown to 72nd street, the address of the Dakota. After all these years of being a fan, John was an image in a magazine, an image in a movie, when I ascended the subway staircase and found myself standing next to the Dakota, John became a `person'.
Until you stand and walk around where John called home, it's hard to get a sense of him as a person, but when I walked around to the entrance way to the building, and stood in the spot where John had walked a thousand times, I really could imagine John walking by in his cool black cowboy boots, I could picture him walking with pride with his wife, and son in tow across to Central Park, scooting around the corner to La Fortuna for his favourite coffee. His gangly stride walking around to the West side pharmacy to get his `bits and pieces' on Columbus Avenue, in a word I got a sense of the `man'.
That's when the real tragedy of that day in 1980 hit me, he was simply a man like any other, a husband, a father, brother, friend and he was taken from us all so easily and senselessly. At 2.50pm today I'm going to be playing Double Fantasy, and I'm going to be remembering that short time I had with John.
Greg xoxo


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Requests Pursuant to Section 4(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act
To Extend the Exemption Granted Under Part 35 of the Commission's
Regulations to Certain Over-The-Counter Swaps and To Determine as
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AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
ACTION: Extension of Comment Period.
SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'')
published on December 6, 2007, a notice of request for comment on
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\1\ 72 FR 68862 (December 6, 2007).
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Issued in Washington, DC, on January 2, 2008 by the Commission.
David A. Stawick,
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AK_Brickster wrote:Hmm.... Not really sure how I feel about these yet. I'll need more up close pics of the other sets first.
First impressions:
- Most figs have black hands. I don't know about you guys, but I prefer to use mostly yellow hands on my troops. I guess the black could be good just because I have so many yellow and not many black, but I have a feeling I'll be switching out a lot of these for yellow.
All in all, not a terrible line at first glance, but Kingdoms was far superior. I'll likely be picking up several of the small set for figs and maybe a dragon and King/Queen. Other than that, it looks like this summer might be a little easier on my wallet than last year.
Almost my thoughts exactly, if they didn't have yellow hands I would prefer brown over black.
OverLoad wrote:EDIT: It appears the Lion King (what sort of moniker will these factions get?) is holding a pearl gold longsword. Finn's sword, pre-"Dad's Dungeon", anyone?
I didn't notice that, but that would be epic to get the long sword in gold!
Another thing that I really hope to get out of this castle series is this in black, along with this and this.


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Family doctors cautious about new guidelines to prevent heart disease
Domino, Silk, Saver and Adler favor lifestyle changes over more drugs
Family doctors at UMass Medical School are discussing how they will use new guidelines from the American Heart Association to help patients reduce their risk of heart disease. In addition to indisputable recommendations for healthy lifestyle changes and weight management, the guidelines include expanded parameters for reducing unhealthy LDL cholesterol that will lead more people to take statin drugs than ever before.
But whether the benefits of statins outweigh the risks of side effects for individuals at lower risk for heart disease, and how best to assess that risk, are being extensively debated.
Frank Domino, MD, and other UMMS family physicians applaud the guidelines' move away from specific low density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad" cholesterol) numbers as goals for treating high cholesterol, focusing instead on which patients should take statins based upon their individual demographics and cardiovascular risk.
"For those with known cardiovascular disease or diabetes and multiple risk factors, statins should be used," wrote Dr. Domino, professor of family medicine & community health, in a recent commentary "New Hyperlipidemia Guidelines Include Controversial Recommendations, Subjective Risk Tool," published on Healthcare Professionals Network.
But they question the recommendation that adults whose risk of a heart attack in the next ten years is 7.5 percent or higher should be prescribed 'moderate' doses of statins for primary prevention.
"For those whose risk is greater than 7.5 percent but have no congenital heart disease or diabetes, a patient-centered, informed consent discussion about the pros and cons of drug treatment is needed," Domino said. "I do not tell my patients what to do, but rather give them a peek at their options."
He does this by using one of the available risk calculators to compare what an individual's risk of having a heart attack in the next ten years is without medication versus what their risk will be with an assumed 20 percent reduction in LDL achieved by taking a statin.
"Comparing these two risk estimates will help patients understand their potential benefits from medication, and allow them an opportunity to make an informed choice about whether or not to initiate statin therapy," he explained. "When I do this, most patients realize the actual benefit is very small unless they have known heart disease."
Potential side effects of statins, including severe muscle pain, memory loss and liver inflammation, are especially concerning to family doctors who oversee patients' overall health and well-being.
"The new lipid guidelines will result by some estimations in one billion people needing statins. In fact by some risk calculators, any man over 70 needs to be on a statin!" said Hugh Silk, MD, clinical associate professor of family medicine & community health. "We will need to show caution and treat each person as an individual and not merely by protocol lest we end up with some part of that billion people with complications from medications, and a huge population who feel that health issues can be solved with a pill rather than a change in lifestyle."
Developed specifically to support the guidelines, the AHA's new Pooled Risk Cohort Equations calculator joins similar tools including the Framingham Risk Calculator and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities calculator that primary care physicians and cardiologists have long used. Domino is among those who have not adopted the new risk calculator developed by the AHA Task Force to specifically support the guidelines because they believe it overstates risk.
"The Pooled Risk Cohort Equations risk calculator is very controversial and reportedly overestimates risk substantially in the crucial range around the magic 7.5 percent line," said Barry Saver, MD, MPH, associate professor of family medicine & community health. "The new guidelines are a big step forward, but we should be cautious about magic lines drawn on continuous risk distributions and spurious precision of risk calculators."
"Our patients will have different preferences based on their own values, and we should help them choose a path concordant with their own values and preferences," agreed Ron Adler, MD, assistant professor of family medicine & community health. "For years, I have been using these calculators to help patients understand the factors that determine their risk. By modifying input variables one can often easily demonstrate that controlling blood pressure or quitting smoking may have a greater or equivalent impact on cardiovascular disease risk as reducing cholesterol. Remember, everyone should be counseled regarding low-fat, low-cholesterol diets and exercise!"
"Until the controversy over which risk calculator to use and whether the cutoff of a 7.5 percent in low-risk individuals is appropriate, clinicians should treat all patients with patient-centered counseling about appropriate dietary changes, smoking cessation, and aerobic exercise," Domino concluded.
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New Year, New Bag: Alexander Wang's Green Rocco Is the One
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IBM Tech Alliance announces 28nm Low-Power process
The IBM Technology Alliance which features famous members such as GlobalFoundries [former AMD], Chartered, Samsung, Infineon and STMicroelectronics are jointly developing a 28nm technology process. As a part of today's release, Low-Power 28nm technology evaluation kit was released end of March 2009.
It is expected that production of first 28nm chips will hit the market sometimes in the second half of 2010, meanining that 32nm process is considered just as a middle-step towards 28nm. Experts say that the transition from 32nm to 28nm will be easy as no major redesign will be necessary; thus saving costs and energy for the new generation of mobile device microprocessors.
The development of the 28nm low-power process is an important step towards the 28nm high-power process used in desktop and server processors. Compared to current 45nm full-node, new 28nm chips will require only 50% the size and offer 40% performance improvement as well as 20% less power consumption.
Editor's Note: Unlike 45nm and 32nm process technology, ITRS regards 28nm as a half-node [half-pitch] process technology, usually considered as a middle step between two process technologies. Thus, it can be compared to 40nm and 55nm half-nodes, evolutions of 45nm and 65nm processes.
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COASTAL SOUTH — Fitness facilities in the coastal South continue recovering after three recent hurricanes — Katrina, Rita and Wilma.
Dion Grossnickle, general manager at Cross Gates Athletic Club in Slidell, LA, never realized how much his club meant to members until at least 50 members drove up to see the devastation for themselves, many of them crying, he said. While one of the club's two locations had minor damage and was open after the storm, the other club had 6 to 7 inches of mud and debris from hurricane Katrina's storm surge.
"It was then that I started to realize that this was not just my business and my job that I was cleaning but a second home to many. Here are our members who also lost most or all of their physical possessions, and they teared up when they saw their club's devastation."
Elmwood Fitness Center in New Orleans is also trying to get back to normal. Although the Ochsner Clinic Foundation (OCF), which owns Elmwood, was the only major hospital in the New Orleans area that did not close its doors after the storm, Elmwood received damage to its Kidsports building, pools and rock wall. Due to flooding the Kidsport building may not reopen until January, but the rest of the facility opened Sept. 21, and since then 468 people have joined the facility.
"Through all of this we are continuing to reach out to the community," said Michael Heim, manager of the children's fitness program at Elmwood. "We are a month-to-month club offering special rates to relief workers and to the general public with no initiation fee or cancellation fee."
The club is also continuing with previously planned events, such as its first ever Rock & Ride, a group spin class. Participants pay $30 per class and receive a T-shirt, grab bag, food and beverages. Proceeds go into a scholarship fund for those who cannot afford the Elmwood weight management class and will help the 5,000 OCF employees displaced by Katrina, Heim said.
Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi was also hit hard by Katrina. The three fitness facilities on the base sustained varying degrees of damage from just roof leakage to a buckled basketball court that an Air Force spokesperson described as "looking like a roller coaster track," to extensive roof damage that caused most of its fitness equipment to rust. The base's sports facility sustained mostly wind damage to the dugouts and fences and water erosion of the playing fields' soil. However, by the end of August, the locker room at two of the fitness centers were open for cleanup crews and contractors to shower. And, just five days after Katrina hit the area, the Blake Fitness Center was open for full service 24 hours a day. Prior to Katrina, 1,550 visited the fitness centers on an average day. A month after Katrina, that number dropped to 222, but representatives from Keesler said customer counts were increasing each day.
Davis Murphy, spa director at the Avenue Plaza Resort and Spa on St. Charles Ave. in New Orleans, reported that the facility had minimal damage except some usage from the National Guard who took post in the resort's parking garage. Some of them used the resort's fitness facility, but without a means to wash towels or flush toilets, the locker rooms needed cleanup upon their departure.
Murphy and his wife also own a personal training and weight management practice and a counseling/psychotherapy practice that are unusable because they are filled with salvageable items from nearby offices.
It will be quite some time before things get back to a sustainable financial environment, Murphy said. He and his wife lost about half their client base due to relocation and the other half is unable to afford training and counseling because of job loss. He expected it would take them at least a year to rebuild their client base to pre-Katrina status.
Hurricane Rita affected clubs on the Louisiana-Texas border, and although many could not be reached, clubs contacted in Houston and Galveston had minimal damage.
24 Hour Fitness evacuated and closed 27 of its clubs in the Houston metropolitan area due to Rita. The large chain set up a phone line for employees and after restoring power, opened all 27 clubs on Sept. 27.
It was a similar story for Galveston Health and Racquet Club, which reopened that same day. The facility only had minor damage with fences and a palm tree down.
"Our biggest problem was getting our staff back to work," said Gerry Del Prete, general manager of Galveston Health and Racquet Club. "With the mandatory evacuation, we had staff scattered all around the state of Texas."
After running the clubs with a skeleton crew for a few days, the club is now back to normal.
[Editor's note: As of press time, Hurricane Wilma was hitting Florida. Look for coverage of that storm in December's issue.]


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(CNN) -- Everyone knows the story of Old Faithful. Here's the story of Old Unreliable.
The Steamboat geyser at Yellowstone National Park is the world's tallest active geyser, but it's unpredictable, sometimes waiting months or decades between eruptions. Once, in the 1960s, it erupted 29 times in a year.
It's rare to be there when Steamboat wakes up. Its eruptions are massive and impressive, reaching as high as 400 feet and lasting as long as 40 minutes. And the show doesn't end there: A thick column of thundering steam spews for hours after an eruption, as if it's a giant steam engine.
Steamboat must have decided it was showtime again on Wednesday. For the first time in eight years, and without warning, the geyser suddenly erupted in a massive spectacle, stunning those on the observation deck, who raced to pull out their cameras.
"We estimate this eruption was about 200 to 300 feet high, and then it just steamed for about 24 hours," said Yellowstone spokesman Dan Hottle.
It took park rangers about two hours to get there. Because of the number of geysers at Yellowstone -- 300, which is more than half of the world's total -- rangers rely on electronic heat sensors placed at each geyser to tell them when one has gone off. Steamboat is in the Norris Geyser Basin in Wyoming.
"When it jumps up, we know we've had an eruption shoot up," Hottle said. With Steamboat, "we saw that jump and then some folks called that it happened."
Hottle said only about 30 or 40 people saw it Wednesday. Now, fans are pumped up for the next unexpected show.
"For us, it's exciting. Every time you're down there, you wonder if that'll be the time that it erupts," he said.


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[January 08, 2014]
The Lincoln Historic
Preservation Commission conducted a public hearing on Tuesday
evening. This was the second public hearing intended to approve a
local designation of a historic district for downtown Lincoln. Not
enough of the seven members were present at the previous meeting to
take a vote.
Six members of the commission were
present. Four voted "yes" — Julie Gerardeau, Ron Keller, Mike Fak and Brian Messner. Abstaining
as property owners were April Doolin, who chairs the commission, and
Bill Vinyard. Ben Rekart was absent.
This is the first preservation district the commission has
proposed. The boundaries would be the same as the current downtown
National Register Historic District; however, this would be a local
designation. The local district would provide similar benefits:
grant opportunities, among other unique distinctions.
A resolution will now be sent to the Lincoln City Council saying
that it is the recommendation of the preservation commission that
properties currently within the boundaries of the downtown Lincoln
National Register Historical District be landmarked by the city as
being in a historic district within its jurisdiction.
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Next, the resolution would need to pass the council, and then
benefits to the district could begin, including the designation of
plaques identifying properties of historical value.
The next meeting of the commission will be its regularly
scheduled monthly meeting on Feb. 18 at 6 p.m. at Lincoln City Hall.
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At TEDxUW 2011, economics professor Larry Smith gave a memorable talk titled, "Why you will fail to have a great career." [ted_talkteaser id=1384]The hilarious talk takes aim at people and the incredible excuses they dream up for not pursuing their passions, from "It's too hard" to "But I value human relationships more than my work." His talk was a call for people to get out of their own way and at least try.
At this year's event, entrepreneur Michael Litt gave his reaction to Smith's talk, titled, "Why you have to fail to have a great career." His idea: that failure provides the ultimate experience needed for success — learning to get up and dust yourself off after a fall. Watch above to hear Litt's candid telling of a time he failed professionally, big time. Since being posting on December 23, this talk has been watched…
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DANYANG, China, August 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lihua International, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIWA) ("Lihua" or the "Company"), a leading Chinese developer, designer, and manufacturer of low cost, high quality alternatives to pure copper products, including refined copper products and superfine and magnet wire, as well as copper clad aluminum ("CCA") wire, today announced that it will report earnings for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013 on Friday, August 9, 2013, before the start of trading in the U.S.
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St. Louis, a city in the centre of the USA, appeals to both young and old by offering a mixture of entertainment, historical attractions and a wild nightlife.
St. Louis was founded as a small French settlement in 1764 and has since grown into a lively city that welcomes about 5 million tourists per year. All tourists enjoy the beautiful views of the Mississippi River. The most important sights include Gateway Arch, which spans the Mississippi, and the old Court Building, which was constructed in the mid-19th century.
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In today's Express-News (and described below) the Symphony is offering our PICK3 sale for the coming week. This is a great opportunity to get great seats at three or more concerts at a significant discount. But, what if you can't decide which three to pick? Have no fear! Here are a few suggestions on unique bundles. The sale ends Friday at noon.
Why not grab the four different can't-miss Brahms Festival programs at a discounted price? This doesn't include the new Brahms Discover concerts, but does grab all four Brahms symphonies and four major concertos with fabulous soloists. The run-down for nine great days of Brahms is:
Friday, February 8, 2013
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Brahms Symphony No. 1
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Brahms Symphony No. 2
Friday, February 15, 2013
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Vadim Gluzman, violin
Brahms Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No. 3
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Vadim Gluzman, violin and Jian Wang, cello
Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
Brahms Symphony No. 4
There is a great tradition of compositions with a Spanish flair. Many of great Spanish, French and Russian composers wrote them! Why not put together music by Manuel de Falla, , Lalo, Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov into a great three-concert series? I've put in bold the pieces that tie this series together.
October 5 & 6, 2012
Ramon Tebar, conductor
Katherine Chi, piano
San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers, John Silantien, director
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol
Verdi Choruses from La forza del destino, Il trovatore and La traviata
Falla Intermezzo and Dances from La vida breve
Bizet March and Chorus, "Le voici!" from Carmen
November 9 & 10, 2012 at 8 p.m., Majestic Theatre
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Martina Filjak, piano
San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers Women, John Silantien, director
Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Debussy Nocturnes
Ravel Bolero
January 25 & 26, 2013
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violin
Chabrier "Fête polonaise" from Le roi malgré lui
Lalo Symphonie espagnole
Ives Symphony No. 2
Some of the greatest orchestral showpieces are also the most virtuosic and use the largest number of musicians. This is the composer showing off all he can dream of! These three concerts feature monster works by Berlioz, Wagner and Mahler. And they are all conducted by Sebastian Lang-Lessing!
October 19 & 20, 2012
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Baiba Skride, violin
Tobias Picker Old and Lost Rivers
Schumann Violin Concerto
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
March 8 & 9, 2013 at 8 p.m., Majestic Theatre
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Alexandre Da Costa, violin
Daugherty Fire and Blood
Wagner Orchestral highlights from The Ring
May 31 & June 1, 2013 at 8 p.m., Majestic Theatre
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers Women, John Silantien, director
The Children's Chorus of San Antonio, Marguerite McCormick, director
Mahler Symphony No. 3
Still can't decide? Then maybe the PICK3 isn't for you. You should consider a full season subscription instead!!!
Here is a copy of yesterday's blog with all the PICK3 details:
The San Antonio Symphony will once again offer a PICK3 sale — the details will be in this Sunday's Express-News. For a very limited time, you are invited to choose 3 or more concerts from 51 of the Symphony's great performances in 2012-2103 and pay only $19 each for Choice Seating or $29 for Premium Seating — a savings of up to 53%. The PICK3 sale deadline is Friday, September 28th at noon.
There is a key strategy behind this one week sale. We are offering this fabulous discount to attract multi-buyers. A multi-buyer is someone who buys more than one concert in a season. Why is so this important to an arts organization? Single ticket buyers often don't develop the concert going habit. They will attend a concert once every two or three years. They enjoy the experience, but they aren't hooked. But, studies show that if you come three times in one season, you are far more likely to become a regular annual customer. So, we offer our PICK3 sale just before the season, to encourage patrons to develop the habit.
If you are already a Symphony subscriber the PICK3 is also valuable to you. You can add concerts to your existing subscription package at this same discount. But, since subscribers have already purchased more than three concerts, the PICK3 offer is available for any concert quantity without the 3-concert minimum.
The concerts that are available include all the Classics series concerts, the two new DISCOVER Brahms concerts, all the POPS concerts, our new Baroque Series at San Fernando Cathedral, Handel's Messiah and some of the performances of The Nutcracker with Ballet San Antonio. The gala piano recital with superstar Lang Lang on Tuesday, October 16 is not included.
Watch for the big ad on Sunday in the Express-News. There is also an ad in the Current and a direct mail flyer mailed to thousands of arts patrons. The sale ends September 28. The first concert of the Symphony season is October 5. For more information call the Symphony box office at (210) 554-1010.
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A BRICS-led South-South Development Bank, founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa that would be funded by them and work to aid developing countries is moving closer to a reality.
The BRICS countries have seen their development surge over the past several years, although there have been some recent slowdowns—particularly in Brazil and India. However, the size of their economies has led them to chafe at the lack of prominence they hold at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, where monetary policies advanced by wealthy nations hold undisputed sway. The term BRIC was coined by former Goldman Sachs Chairman Jim O'Neill in 2001, when he predicted that those four countries together would equal the U.S.'s economic output by 2020. In 2010 South Africa joined the group at the four members' invitation.
The BRICS have been agitating for years for more voting rights and more influence over how the world's finances are managed, to no avail. The U.S. has yet to ratify a 2010 agreement to make changes at the IMF, which, together with the World Bank, has dominated economic policy for seventy years.
Considering that the BRICS together hold over 40% of the world's population and a quarter of its GDP, with foreign currency reserves of $4.4 trillion, some would say it's long overdue that these countries have more say in the working of the world's finances, and a greater part to play in how developing nations gain access to funds. Neither are the BRICS happy at the continuing helming of both the World Bank and the IMF by unchallenged U.S. and European heads; just last year American Jim Yong Kim beat out candidates from Colombia and Nigeria to take the top slot at the World Bank.
BRICS nations are determined to change that. Last year, the five countries proposed their own bank, which would not be reliant on the West for funding or policies, would not be dependent on the dollar and the euro, and would make its own decisions about where and how to encourage development. A meeting of the group in Durban, South Africa this week is intended to be the scene of this new bank's formation—although an agreement on how funding will be structured is still being worked out.
Each country is expected to contribute an initial $10 billion to fund the new body's launch, and therein is the rub. BRICS leaders meeting in Durban ahead of the summit have agreed in principle to the bank's formation, but there is disagreement over whether, as originally proposed, the contribution should be fixed at the same amount for each country, or whether larger nations—such as China—should bear a heavier part of the funding burden. Still, the summit will include a mention of the bank in its final communiqué and the BRICS intend to revisit the issue at an April G20 meeting.
Colin Bradford, director of the Brookings-CIGI global governance reform project in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution in Washington and a former chief economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development, said that while a BRICS bank would certainly not rival the World Bank in size, it would "be under the control of the five powers, instead of the whole world."
The creation of a BRICS bank is a political move, said Bradford, with a different focus than existing institutions. "I think it would try to deliberately offer a distinct style, different methods for implementing loans; it's designed to do that. The idea is to be different, not the same [as the World Bank.] That's the whole point," Bradford said.
The dispute over funding, and thus control within the new institution, is no small challenge. "The Chinese could give enough to dominate the whole thing. Do the others want China to dominate? Probably not," he said.
While he is not on the scene observing the state of negotiations, Bradford said of the current stalemate over funding logistics that it's "probably tough" to determine each country's contribution. "How can the Chinese be big givers, and [the others] not turn it over to the Chinese? I think they'll deflect the issue to the finance ministers and let them figure it out," he said.
Negotiations over the bank may not be progressing as much as the BRICS would like, but certainly they are not ready to let the matter drop, if only out of sheer frustration with the IMF and the World Bank. One step that indicates the BRICS' frustration with the West as a source of funding and financial policy is the currency swap agreement reached between China and Brazil at the summit. According to the terms, up to $30 billion in bilateral trade will be covered for a period of three years as both countries try to forestall problems in the financial markets should another crisis erupt and dollar funding tighten. The agreement is expected to be operational by the middle of the year.
Just a year ago, the BRICS nations also opened their own futures exchange, offering their investors additional opportunities to pursue foreign investment.


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The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. (NPHC) is a coalition of the nine largest historically African American Greek-letter fraternities and sororities*, currently representing over 1.5 million members internationally. Additionally, the organization boasts a diverse membership comprised of students, celebrities, corporate, political and community leaders. The NPHC was organized on May 10, 1930, on the campus of Howard University. For over 75 years, members of the constituent Greek-letter organizations of NPHC have convened to discuss and address issues of mutual concern. The collective social and economic power of the NPHC has been a major source of change for the African American community in America since its inception.
Welcome New Wright State Students
Wright State Chapter of the National Pan Hellenic Council (NPHC) hosts seven historically African-American fraternities and sororities here on campus. The organizations include Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc; Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc; and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. These organizations provide opportunities for undergraduate students to become involved as active figures on and off-campus, upholding the principles these organizations were established several years ago.
On May 10, 1930, on the campus of Howard University in Washington DC, the National Pan-Hellenic Council was formed as a permanent organization with the stated purpose and mission of "Unanimity of thought and action as far as possible in the conduct of Greek letter collegiate fraternities and sororities, and to consider problems of mutual interest to its member organizations." These problems of mutual interest derive from the need to raise community awareness and action through educational, economic, and cultural service activities.
Wright State's fraternities and sororities are always looking for new members who exhibit interest in the organizations and the goals for which they strive to achieve. As newcomers to college, it is definitely useful to become informed on Greek life, observing the organizations on campus, and finding out what they can do for you.
Please follow the social media accounts for more information. @Wright_NPHC on Twitter, wrightstate_nphc on Instagram.
We look forward to meeting you all on campus this fall, and hope you have a wonderful year here at Wright State University! If you would like to find out more about NPHC fraternities and sororities please watch for our NPHC Open House and Open Forum events.
How to Join
NPHC organizations participate in membership intake, the process of selecting, educating, and initiating new members, at a time deemed specific by the specific organization. Membership intake is highly regulated by each of the national organizations. Generally, Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.5-2.75 on a 4.0 scale; be involved in a leadership role on campus; actively performing service in the community. NPHC groups do not accept first-semester freshmen.
Aspirants, or interested persons, should note that individual organizations hold informational meetings throughout the school year. These meetings will be advertised throughout various locations on campus and will provide aspirants with the opportunity to learn more about an organization and perhaps get specific intake questions answered. Students who are interested in learning more information about the entire council are encouraged to attend the annual NPHC Open House.
The nine historically African American Greek-letter fraternities and sororities that makeup NPHC are:
- Alpha Phi Alpha
- Alpha Kappa Alpha
- Delta Sigma Theta*
- Phi Beta Sigma
- Kappa Alpha Psi
- Zeta Phi Beta*
- Iota Phi Theta*
- Omega Psi Phi*
- Sigma Gamma Rho
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Seth MacFarlane's clever, if somewhat protracted, opening bit at Sunday night's Academy Awards starred his hero, Captain Kirk, who traveled back in time to prevent a hosting performance certain to earn the wrath of Hollywood.
Kirk/William Shatner showed "clips" typical of the MacFarlane we've come to expect from "Family Guy" and "Ted" – he sang a number called "We Saw Your Boobs" that named names (and movies), mounted a sophomoric sock puppet version of "Flight" and creepily came on to Sally Field while hovering in a "Flying Nun" outfit.
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But with the encouragement of Kirk/Shatner, viewers also were treated to more traditionally Oscar-friendly fare as MacFarlane used the pleasing singing voice that once crudely derided "The Freaking FCC" to croon "The Way You Look Tonight," "High Hopes" and a gentle parody of "Be Our Guest."
The comically schizophrenic opening set the tone for a night in which MacFarlane tried to have it both ways – morphing before a worldwide audience from a "Family Guy" to a self-mocking "Oscar Guy." Not that it always proved a smooth transition during a broadcast whose strength and weakness both rested in being a made-for-TV affair more rooted at times in MacFarlane's television sensibility than in the movies.
Still, whatever the final critical consensus, "boring" shouldn't be among the top adjectives to describe MacFarlane's frequently funny Oscars turn. He tweaked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for snubbing Ben Affleck in the Best Director category for "Argo," even if he couldn't help likening the filmmaker to a Kardashian. MacFarlane got tentative laughs with a quip about Daniel Day-Lewis's round-the-clock method-acting approach to "Lincoln" ("If you bumped into Don Cheadle on the lot, would you try to free him?"). A crack about the prevalence of an insidious slur in "Django Unchained" ("I'm told the screenplay is loosely based on Mel Gibson's voicemail") elicited groans.
The Hollywood audience didn't know how to react to another "Lincoln"-inspired one-liner that invoked the most infamous thespian of them all: "I would argue that the actor who really got into Lincoln's head was John Wilkes Booth."
MacFarlane quickly made it clear, even if he was somewhat subdued compared to his usual bawdy TV oeuvre, that he was playing less to the stars in the seats of the Dolby Theatre than to the Peter Griffins in Quahogs across the globe (or at least in the U.S.).
His jokes, taste-pushing and otherwise, helped keep the 3 1/2-hour ABC broadcast moving at a reasonable pace, which came as a relief after recent years of lackluster Oscar nights. MacFarlane provided balance between the scathing wit that Ricky Gervais brought to the Golden Globes from 2010 to 2012, and the more all-around talents required by the Academy Awards. His song-and-dance talent aided the cause in a year in which Oscar celebrated music.
MacFarlane knew coming in he'd be viewed with skepticism by the usual Tinseltown crowd, and drew laughs stressing his outsider status not only in his opening but via his fuzzy, foul-mouthed alter ego Ted, who wanted the address of "the big post-Oscars Hollywood orgy." He also knew he'd be compared to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who earned raves hosting the Globes last month. MacFarlane turned that into a joke, too – and making himself, like everyone else in the crowd, fair game for barbs.
"Why couldn't they just get Tina and Amy to host?" Kirk/Shatner asked.
MacFarlane said they'd be in his place next year. Maybe. But give him credit for injecting a breath of fresh – as in cheeky – air that at times propelled the 85th Annual Academy Awards into comic territory where no Oscars broadcast has gone before.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.
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